Citation: Tieghem, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 41:507 (1894) var. quandang.

Synonymy: Loranthus quandang Lindley in T.L. Mitchell, Three Exped. Int.eastern Austral. 2:69 (1838); L. nutans Cunn. ex Hook. in T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 158 (1848), non Sprengel (1825); L. cunninghamii A. Gray, U.S. Expl. Exped. 15:741 (1854); L. canus F. Muell., Hookerg J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 8:145 (1856); L. pruinosus Cunn. ex Ettingsh., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss., Wien 32:65 ( 1872); Dendrophthoe pruinosa (Cunn. ex Ettingsh.)Ettingsh., Denkschr. Akad. Wiss., Wien 32:65 (1872); L. pendulus Sieber ex Sprengel vat. canescens F. Muell. & Tate, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 16:360 (1896); A. cana (F. 1V[uell.)Tieghem, A. nutans (Cunn. ex Hook.)Tieghem and A. pruinosum (Cunn. ex Ettingsh.)Tieghem, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 42:84 (1895).

Common name: Grey mistletoe.

Description:
Plant shortly and densely white-tomentose, becoming glabrous and glaucous on the older parts; epicortical runners absent; leaf lamina lanceolate to ovate, often falcate, 40-100 x 8-40 mm, attenuate to contracted at the base into a distinct petiole 4-12 mm long, acute to rounded at the apex.

Inflorescence peduncle usually 5-8 mm long, rays 2, 2-8 mm long; pedicels of the lateral flowers 1-3 mm long; bracts c. 1 mm long; calyx abruptly widened just below the limb; limb entire, 0.5-1 mm long; corolla 16-30 mm long, 5-merous, green or lilac; anthers 2-4 mm long, about half as long as the free part of the filament.

Fruit ellipsoid, pear-shaped or nearly globular, 6-10 mm long.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 222.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, NU, GT, FR, NL   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Flowers: May-Oct. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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